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Our Daily Thread 4-25-15

Good Morning!

Welcome to the weekend! 🙂

Today’s header photo and the one below are from Kare and her husband. 

2 chicks - 2nd family of Barn Swallows Kare

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On this day in 1859 work began on the Suez Canal in Egypt.

In 1898 the U.S. declared war on Spain. Spain had declared war on the U.S. the day before.

In 1928 a seeing eye dog was used for the first time.

And in 1967 Colorado Governor John Love signed the first law legalizing abortion in the U.S. 😦

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Quote of the Day

“The obscure we see eventually. The completely obvious, it seems, takes longer.“

Edward R. Murrow

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Today is Bjorn Ulvaeus’ birthday. Both videos are from AbbaVEVO

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Anyone have a QoD?

86 thoughts on “Our Daily Thread 4-25-15”

  3. It’s raining, it’s pouring,
    This song is getting boring…
    Went to bed, heard rain in my head,
    Knew I wasn’t dead, in Atlanta instead,
    Heaven sounds of singing, not rain drops pinging,
    sorry to say,water warps brain today,
    rain, rain, go away (to C A)

    Trying to change my song. Rap inspired by rain on the brain.

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  4. Today is the day!
    Mama Ruth knows about her party. I had looked for “ladies tea” ideas. One of the sites said “for goodNess sakes if you live in the South do have deviled eggs”. Did you know there is an entire blog dedicated to the making of them?
    I Learned yesterday to lay the eggs on their side for 8 hours before cooking them to center the yolk for a more evenly distributed deviled egg. I also learned to take them out of the refrigerator and let them come to room temperature before cooking so they won’t Crack in the boiling water.
    Who knew boiling some eggs and deviling them was so complicated.
    I am also doing pound cake squares with raspberry preserves drizzled over them. I am quite proud of myself in this. I have asked for help from others and I haven’t tried to control what they are doing. In other words I am trusting that it will turn out just fine without me micromanaging every detail. 😉

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  5. I set my phone calendar to remind me to pray for 6 Arrow’s concert on Sunday. I do utilize that reminder feature frequently.

    Well, the new grass has not needed any watering, and it is thriving so far. I did not mow that section of the yard yet.

    I need to go make my coffee and do my Bible study. I hope you all have a really good Saturday. Sog City makes for a sad day for retailers this Saturday. No one except for sales clerks who get paid would go out in this weather. Many will be having pot luck and clean out the refrigerator food today instead of going out to restaurants.

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  6. On abortion. Obviously Publix believes they are supporting a worthy cause right now when they ask if you would like to support the March of Dimes. Twice now I have had r o tell the cashier “No. I don’t support the March of Dimes”. Yesterday she smiled at me and told me to have a blessed day.

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  8. Kim, that sounds divine! It is good to go with the flow, and let people bring their unique touches to the party. Some may not be up to your standards, but that is okay. They are not a reflection of you, but of the way God made people different from each other. Enjoy the variety, and look for something good in anything that draws attention in a negative way. Try to see with forgiving eyes rather than critical eyes.

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  12. Good Morning….I do so love the beauty of this state of Colorado…what ugly stains she has upon her.. 😦
    Today we are supposed to begin a rainy streak….with snow returning in our neck of the woods on Monday….things sure are greening up around here….
    Off to work…have a blessed weekend ya’ll…praying for a sweet and memorable time for Mama Ruth and her blessed girls ❤

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  13. Photos! 🙂

    I had the same question as Chas until I thought about it and realized that eggs sit upright in their cartons. But at first, I envisioned trying roll eggs over onto their “other” side and was confused. But it’s early.

    Have fun at the party, Kim, what a great idea that was. She’ll love it.

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  16. Deviled eggs are done. 12 are fancy smancy with half having dill weed and half having capers the other 12 are old fashioned southern with sweet pickle relish only. They all have mayonnaise. Now remember what a work of love these were when you had to make your own mayo!
    Lulabelle got a spoonful over her breakfast and Amos is cleaning up what was left. He lover it when I make egg salad. I only had 3 halves of the whites that I wasn’t able to use. So guess what I had for breakfast?

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  17. Oh some of the photos on pinterest, and elsewhere had fancy eggs that you flattens the fat part of the Oval and cut off the top and stuffed them that way so you didn’t have to have a special deviled egg tray.
    I was smart enough this morning to put the yolk mixture in a plastic sandwich bag, snip the corner and pipe the stuffing in.

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  18. My dogs love hard-boiled eggs. It’s a big treat when I have some on hand and occasionally put a half or a whole egg on top of their food.

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  19. I guessed correctly on the barn swallows, though I wasn’t 100% sure since other species of swallow might be similar. The hawk I knew only was a hawk; it isn’t a species I know. (And I find it maddeningly difficult to photograph a flying hawk, so I’m impressed by that photo.)

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  20. Kim, my younger daughter loves making deviled eggs. In the last year or so, they have become her contribution to church potlucks and family dinners. (Most of the time she uses a decorating tip, cake decorator, to make hers.) Could you share the link to that site?

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  22. Chas, I have always thought that egg white is the best part of a boiled egg (and I pretty much don’t like any other kind of egg). I eat the whole boiled egg, but I like the white best. And Misten will readily eat whatever I give her. She often gets the white left over from the deviled eggs.

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  23. I’m kind of a.weirdo. I don’t like eggs of any kind. People often can’t believe that I don’t like deviled eggs or fried eggs. I can eat some kinds of egg casseroles but only if they are completely unhealthy with sausage or bacon etc. 😁

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  24. Janice, how I wish we had you problem.

    Nancyjill, I wondered if you had snow yesterday. We had a light sprinkle, but Ruidoso got 3 inches of snow. The Town west of us got a good rain. We got cold wind.

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  25. off to the church ladies conference today. So tired from visiting and playing with grandkids. Such a lovely rain we had all through the night. Family goes home today. I am so tired, but I will probably have to take them to the airport, 1 1/2 hours away.

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  26. Great shot of the hawk. I love seeing majestic birds in flight. We do get a lot of bald eagles along the river, especially in winter. Beautiful birds.

    🌵 Trying an emoji (http://getemoji.com/) I found today. Since my gravatar is a saguaro in bloom, I thought I’d add one to a post. Here goes…

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  28. I love hard-scrambled eggs with a little pepper … or plain hard-boiled eggs.

    But I don’t like ‘fancy’ eggs or eggs prepared any other way, really.

    I used to like sunny-side up eggs, but don’t really care for runny yokes anymore. 😦

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  29. We have a deviled egg specialist at our church as well–she’s now up to three dozen deviled eggs at each potluck. I confess, I always eat one standing in line and put a second on my plate–so I’m guilty.

    And I never make them. Good call on the plastic piping bag, Kim.

    I, too, am off to a church workshop on finding your ministry. I’ve been having a hard time revving up my enthusiasm, so Oswald Chambers stepped in this morning:

    “If we do only what we feel inclined to do, some of us would never do anything. There are some people who are totally unemployable in the spiritual realm. They are spiritually feeble and weak, and they refuse to do anything unless they are supernaturally inspired. The proof that our relationship is right with God is that we do our best whether we feel inspired or not.”

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  30. Well, I was pretty much force-fed eggs as a child. (By the time I was in junior high, Mom and I had an agreement that I only had to eat half an egg and I could give the other half to the dog, but it took me at least 20 minutes to choke it down. I physically could not make myself swallow anything distasteful, so I’d just chew constantly until a mouthful was dissolved enough that some of it would go down as I swallowed my spit. My parents thought me stubborn, but I wasn’t. I couldn’t swallow it, would gladly have just eaten it and gotten it over with, but I couldn’t. I finally made myself learn to swallow pills when I was 20, after I moved out. Up to that point I couldn’t swallow so much as half a Dramamine, though chewed it was incredibly bitter and made my tongue and throat numb–I’d have been much happier just to swallow it, but no matter how I tried, no matter what tricks I used, I simply could not.) But Dad would get up and eat breakfast, and when we got up we looked to see what he had for breakfast, and we had to have the same thing. If he had pancakes, he would have made enough pancake batter for everyone, so we’d make pancakes with his batter. If he had eggs, we could make our own eggs any style we wanted (fried, scrambled, poached), but we had to eat eggs too. If he ate oatmeal, a lidded pan on the stove had oatmeal in it. If he made French toast, he left enough batter for all of us but we cooked our own. Thing is, Dad never ate dry cereal for breakfast, but Mom and Dad would sometimes eat it as a bedtime snack after we kids were in bed. So we finally persuaded Mom to make a deal with us–first two times in the week that Dad ate eggs, we had to eat eggs too, but after that we could, instead, eat cereal. To this day I won’t eat eggs for breakfast, and only within the last three years have I had pancakes again.

    One morning when I was in eighth grade, Dad made eggs and I couldn’t bring myself to make my egg, so I procrastinated, made my lunch, whatever, but I didn’t make my egg. And then Mom said something like, “Well, kids, go ahead and get dressed or you’ll be late” and I realized she didn’t know I hadn’t eaten an egg yet, and I got away with it, so I happily skipped breakfast that morning (and never did get hungry till lunchtime). Looking back, I realize she may have known I didn’t eat, but she decided to give me mercy that day, or she thought maybe I’d regret skipping breakfast. But at the time, I was jubilant with relief. In retrospect, as I look back on my childhood, I could count on one hand the number of times I ever felt hungry as a child; to this day if I am hot I’m not hungry. So I think part of my being a “picky eater” was that I was forced to eat when I wasn’t hungry, and any food that seemed at all unpleasant became triply so.

    I can still eat boiled eggs (you don’t have to smell them cooking, and you eat them later in the day), and my family occasionally ate (fried) eggs and hash for supper, and I can still eat them that way. But otherwise I have not eaten a scrambled or fried egg since I moved out of Mom’s house more than a quarter century ago. If I’m a guest in someone’s house, I tell them in advance “I don’t eat eggs” so that I don’t appear rude in the morning. In college I twice attended (free tickets) a $25 / plate prayer breakfast with scrambled eggs as the entree, and I didn’t touch them. (I did like the fresh-squeezed orange juice.)

    But what is funny is that boiled eggs, the only kind I can eat, are the one kind my husband won’t eat (he thinks they smell horrid), so he won’t eat our daughter’s deviled eggs, either, though I do.

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  31. I cooked hard boiled eggs yesterday. I ate one and will use the rest for egg salad for husband and to mix with tuna salad for me. Yesterday I found a recipe in a cookbook for fried sardines with a dipping sauce. Never thought of that before. Batter them up and fry them and people who don’t normally like sardines tend to like them. May try it some adventuresome day. Kroger just had 10 cans of sardines for $10.00 so I stocked up. Then I found the recipe. 🙂

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  32. I hated runny eggs when young and always required the yolk to be broken when served fried eggs. I learned to appreciate the runny yolk after marriage since that was my husband’s preferred fried egg. So now I like them anyway they are cooked and I love deviled eggs.

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  33. Question which may have been covered before: How do you get grown children to get their things out of your house? Son is in a tiny furnished apartment so he still has lots of things here at home. He was away for four years at first college and now he has almost been away for two more years. I don’t want to insult him or hurt feelings, but I would like to have a lot less things of his since I am trying to whittle down what we have in the house. It is mostly books, cd collection and clothes, but since he is so far away I don’t know the most economical way to get the things out to him.

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  36. Janice, how about tell him he needs to get them out by such and such a date or you’ll be charging him some rent for storage space? It seems to me that unless a child returns home after college (and pays rent to live at home), then getting stuff out of the parents’ house within a year is not an unreasonable request. If you can hold onto two or three boxes, tell him that.

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  38. We used to tell them they had a certain amount of time to get it moved, now we just dump it if they don’t take it. They know that. We are not a storage bin. They can rent one if they need one.

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  40. Here’s proof that news writers today don’t recognize the difference between a (hard) news story and a (soft) human-interest story. My home page is Juno, simply because I’ve never bothered to change it. I clicked on the news story about the earthquake in Nepal (headline: “Nepal quake: Over 1,000 dead, history razed, Everest shaken,” which certainly suggests hard news.

    This is the lead: “Once the first shaking stopped, Vaidya thought his family could return indoors by evening. But the jolts kept coming, and they felt safer outdoors.” ”

    That’s the first page of a five-page story, and the headline is the only part of page one that tells “what happened” and not “this is one individual’s experience of that news story.” If I’m reading about a celebrity break-up (which, by the way, I don’t find interesting enough to read), then that sort of lead works. But for thousands of people dead, within hours of the event, as the story’s lead? Sorry, that’s bad writing.

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  42. Just spent the day going back in time: a civil war reenactment. We met Abe Lincoln! (The actor has a personalized plate that says “IM ABE 1”. Got a picture of him next to it.)

    I enjoy going to these and dressing in period cloths. Amazing how many people want my picture then. If I went in everyday cloths they wouldn’t even give me a second look.

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  43. Good long day at the Shoppe….busy busy busy….I’m exhausted!
    rkessler…we have had no snow this week…we did get a few sprinkles of rain the other day….I believe we are supposed to get less than an inch on Monday evening at our elevation….after that warm Spring air is supposed to return! 🙂
    When I was growing up, we called over easy eggs “dippin’ eggs”….which meant we could dip our toast into the yolk of the egg…when I ask Paul how he would like his eggs prepared…it’s always “dippin”…see what I taught him? 😛

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  46. Nice dinner out with a friend — I had to postpone my visit to Carol, the day got out of control.

    Cheryl, my only thought was that may have been the most recent of several stories they’d written on the event, though the page should also have included the original more basic story. But by the time you saw that the news may have been pretty ‘old’ to a lot of the world, I don’t know, and this was the followup attempt to go a little deeper and provide some more personal context to what (most?) people already had read or heard about by then.

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  48. Janice – Maybe you could firmly encourage him (or just plain tell him “I need you to do this soon”) that you are trying to “downsize”, as a friend recently put it, & would appreciate him going through his stuff ASAP. But since he is still studying, & only has a tiny place, maybe you could also let him store some boxes of things he’ll want someday, but doesn’t have room for now, in his bedroom closet (or some such place). How would that work for you?

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  50. I must be too liberal. My daughter has half a closet (numerous boxes stacked), and several drawers in a dresser plus a couple boxes in the garage. I actually thought she threw away too much . . . When she gets her own place, she’ll take a bed and dresser with her, maybe even a book shelf, and the rest. At the moment, she’s still living with other relatives.

    We have a couple boxes for our son, too, but he’s also in a fluid situation.

    But if I needed a room–he’d have one chance to box up his possessions and clear stuff out or I’d do it for him and store things in the garage, within reason.

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  51. I think it depends on the circumstances. If one has a big home and just doesn’t bother to move the things, it is quite different than someone who simply has no room and is going to move several times. I guess it is treating someone as you would want to be treated.

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  52. Chas,
    About Rock bands, Queen did some fun music. And unlike some music it has harmony, verses and can sound nice… and then there is the music that will never go away.

    I am extremely lucky. Very rarely do I understand words in a song. There is probably lots of Quenn I wouldn’t/shouldn’t listen to if knew what they were singing about. I listen to the instrumentation, the rhythm, the harmony; I rarely get the words.

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  54. Thank you all for comments on what to do about son’s things.
    Our house is small and I don’t have a garage or other good storage space, other than one of the four small bedrooms that is basically used as a storage unit. He has things in there as well as his bedroom being exactly as it has always been. He has bought a few items of furniture for his place, a futon, desk, and small table. He has a huge walk-in closet. We have very small closets. I think this house was built in the early 60s before big closets became the norm.

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  55. We have a Nepalese/Bhutanese church plant in my church building. There will be many prayers rising up today while tears fall.

    Kim, your Galaxy phone seems to have gremlins like this one did. You told me what to do to fix it. The fix slows things down, but helps otherwise.

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  56. Good Morning Everyone. The party for Mama Ruth went very well. It was great to see old friends…some drove all the way from the northern end of the state to be there. We laughed a lot. We compared what Mama Ruth said to each of us and laughed at the discrepancies. Such is life as we age. You laugh or you cry. She had found out about the party and as late as Friday asked one of her daughters if she was supposed to act surprised. Yesterday she refused to let anyone fix her hair or get her ready. She was 30 minutes late. 😉 Always make an entrance dahlin’.
    I did make several stops on my way over and managed to put my touch on the table. The photos are on FB. I had bought her a corsage that she wore during the party, but when the nurses aids put her back in bed we took it off. Robin asked me if I would take it home and wear it to church this morning, but we saw a spry resident in the lobby and pinned it on her. You should have seen her face! She was a party crasher in the best way. We had taken some of the food out to the receptionist and she asked that we bring her a plate. Later she asked for some of what we were drinking. Oh and BTW Chik Fil A is PROUD of that lemonade. Its NINE DOLLARS a gallon!
    We also took food to the nurses station that services the room Mama Ruth is in. They were so appreciative. (Robin and I laughed that it is always good to suck up to the people wiping your hiny). A couple of them liked my hat and my shoes. One of them asked about my shoes and said they were just like a $200 pair by some celeb. Mine were $49 at Belk so I am telling myself I saved $150 on shoes—don’t bother trying to understand. That’s women’s shoe logic.

    I called Mr P on my way home and the party we were to attend yesterday that I sent him to alone was still somewhat going on. As I was crossing the I-10 Bridge across Mobile Bay I saw the Marine Police running south with their lights on. I couldn’t see any boats and couldn’t think why they would be doing that in the rain. I forgot that yesterday was a big regatta here in the area. As I got closer to the bay house where the party was there were leaves, branches and some trees down. Traffic lights were out (You treat it as a four way stop people!). A squall line hit the race towards the finish line at Dauphin Island. The party hostess’ s brother was on one of the leading boats. He is an Olympic class sailor but said they were going under the bridge when a wall of white hit them. They started taking down the sails and mast and making emergency preparations, but couldn’t do it fast enough. He called the Coast Guard and they were among the first to be picked up. The boat sank. Many other boats capsized and a full out rescue mission took place. Last night 4 people were still missing. From the bay house we could see the blue lights of the marine police and the Coast Guard helicopters hovering over the water. On Facebook people were volunteering to take their power boats to help with a grid search.

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  59. Oh, and my XTerra is still down at the Bay House because where I parked was so flooded that I could have sat there and spun my wheels and dug up a good patch of grass or I could catch a ride home and go back and get it today.

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  60. By the way, on the moving out option: we still have a storage shed full of first born’s things. He will never want them. They are furniture he bought when we lived in Greece and he had them shipped here. Someday, I will empty the shed. Most of the stuff they have left behind, they found they did not actually want. So were glad it got tossed so I would quit reminding them.

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  61. Lest I sound too harsh about moving to make your children get their stuff….My dad got remarried and sold the house where I grew up. He gave me at least 2 months to sort through, save, and throw away. If he hadn’t have done it then I would have had to take care of it anyway when he died.

    One confirmed dead from the regatta, and four are still missing.

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  62. Janice, we had gotten rid of almost all our kids’ stuff, but then when daughter moved to Saskatoon, she only had a room in a house (the rest of the house shared by 2 other girls). So our shop has all the stuff that didn’t fit in her room. Once she becomes a paramedic and can afford a larger place it’s outta here. But our shop is HUGE and we can still get 2 vehicles, a quad, a garden tractor and a whole bunch of lumber in there, plus all my Christmas tubs!

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  63. It has its good points, too, as we borrow her kitchen chairs when we have a large group for dinner and she let us use her microwave when ours quit until we found one we liked.

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  64. Well two funny things to report this morning, since I was the voice of doom and gloom earlier.
    Last night I was sitting on the porch with a friend watching the sun set after such horrid weather. We were talking about a big breakfast I had had planned yesterday but didn’t do for P and me. As soon as I uttered the words, “I bought a box of grits” I knew I had made a mistake. She looked at me funny and said, “You bought a box of grits, not a bag?” For those of you who do not understand the significance of what I revealed is that I buy INSTANT grits, not REAL grits. It is a major faux pas. There was no way to dig myself out of that hole. Now, don’t get me wrong, I prefer to eat real grits, I am just unwilling to clean the pot after cooking them.
    Speaking of holes I am in. My truck, an SUV is still stuck in the mud. I had a major deje vu moment when Mr. P and I went to get it. As a last resort he found a rope in his truck and tried to pull me out. Several times in my misspent youth I got my father’s truck stuck. He was cuss an’ fuss and eventually end up laughing that SONS were supposed to do that not DAUGHTERS. Once my “classic” 1966 Mustang broke down and he had to come get me and tow it home. He had me in the car and the rope broke. He pulled over to the side of the road, came back to me yelling at the top of his lungs all sorts of foul language. This morning as Paul was tying the rope between the two vehicles, I knew it wasn’t going to work. I watch the rope snap, got out and told him what happened. I held my breath for just a moment. His response was, “Oh well, we will have to come back later after it dries up or call or tow truck. There were ABSOLUTELY no curse words in that sentence.

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  65. Now I am stranded at home and Mr Wonderful brought the vacuum in from the garage. When I asked him what he was doing his reply was that he was re-acquainting me with the vacuum cleaner to which I responded that I was well acquainted. Guess I will go do laundry.

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  67. Sorry to jump in without reading what came before (I will eventually), but it’s showtime in three hours, and if you’ve been praying, thank you very much! I am excited but NOT NERVOUS (at this point)!! Prayers for peace and calm after the show starts would be wonderful, but most of all that I remember that this is for the glory of God.

    And if you’d like to pray that I remember my solo as I play (I’m not using music for that one), that would be a bonus — I got to church this morning, a 15-minute drive from home, and realized when I reached to unbuckle my seat belt that I had never buckled myself in!

    Yikes! Music on the brain. 😀

    Thank you, and blessings to you all!

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  69. Just came back inside from building a snowman! He’s pretty cute 🙂

    No church today as the roads are pretty much impassable with anywhere from 6″ to a foot of heavy wet snow.

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  70. Just trying to imagine snow. It’s a big stretch, as in from Georgia to Canada! Even imagining a vehicle stuck in the mud is a fairly big stretch from Atlanta to the coast of Alabama!
    The sun is shining and more flowers are blooming in the yard♡ My nose is watery and my eyes are congested, or something like that! Time to drink the water mixed with aloe juice that seems to clear that. The wind is up today making for more allergens swirling around.

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  72. Donna, I figured that, too, that the human interest follow-up was a little “later” news story. But it should have had a different headline than what I clicked on; the headline I clicked on should have been straight news, certainly for at least the first page. What one individual experienced just is not as important as the event, not in the first few hours after a major event. It’s like a story on 9/11, the very day of 9/11, not saying on page one that the towers have come down, but instead interviewing a fireman. Put it under a different headline if you want to do that; don’t put it as the main news story, because it isn’t.

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  74. cheryl, your mention of 9/11 made me realize that news spreads so much faster than than it ever has. Ha, we put out an “extra” noon (paper) edition on 9/11, the web sites were still fairly rudimentary back then and many people still relied on their more traditional news sources.

    We often update big stories several times within a day on our website now, assuming (correctly for the most part, I think) that people have heard or seen it by then with the internet & 24-hour news sites and programs.

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  75. Glad to hear the party for Mama Ruth went well, Kim. How very tragic to hear about that regatta, though.

    Thank you for all the prayers for me today. The whole show went fantastically well! I stayed calm and thoroughly enjoyed all the performances without any bit of nervousness about my solo coming in way at the end.

    My duet partner had written into our music, right above the first measure of her part, “Say a prayer.” Seeing that penciled in, as well as knowing I had prayer support from such fine folks as you, helped SO much.

    Third Arrow did fabulously turning our pages at just the right time for the duet, and I remembered all my music on my solo. (Well, one tiny memory slip, but it didn’t throw me, and I proceeded beyond it just fine.)

    My mom and dad came to the show, and presented me with a single rose before my performance. 🙂

    Just a lovely way to spend a Sunday afternoon.

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  76. Good job, 6 arrows, 🙂

    I just took the most intense 2-hour nap, I must have really, really been tired. It was one of those deep sleeps, but lots of dreams, and when I woke up and I assumed it was morning and couldn’t figure out what day it was …

    Still shaking the cobwebs out.

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  78. 6 Arrows, I am so glad you had a great day and played your heart out.
    I think the party was quite successful. There were some pretty touching moments. One former Rainbow Girl who came from North Alabama leaned over to hug her and talk to her. The “Girl” said she could tell Mama Ruth didn’t know who she was, but said “You have the prettiest smile”. When she was telling me about it, she had tears in her eyes because she said that is what Mama Ruth always said to her. One of the Girls is driving to Houston today to start teaching tomorrow morning. She took time out to be there. She has had a really tough time as a single mother since her former husband (a former minister of some kind, but no longer due to pornography) can’t keep a job. She spent part of her tax refund to make a rainbow fruit tray. I posted a photo of the two of us on FB. She is looking at me like who in the world are you. I love it, because it is who she is now.
    In a lot of ways we 40-50-is year old women were teenagers again, laughing and joking and remembering our fun times. It definitely was a day of “In Rainbow Love and Service”.

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  79. Kim:”In a lot of ways we 40-50-is year old women were teenagers again, laughing and joking and remembering our fun times.”

    It used to be like that when Elvera and her sisters (there were five girls) got together and giggle and act silly. Most of it was about nonsense, but they had fun. Two of them are gone and they only see each other twice a year now. But the youngest, Polly, lives here. That[s one reason we are in Hendersonville.

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  80. Donna mentioned dreams, so I’ll tell you one of the ones I had last night. Well, actually, it was a nightmare, one of my recurring ones. It’s not the same exact dream each time, but the main element is the same.

    Last night’s nightmare was about two almost life-sized doll/statues of teenage boys. (Never had that kind of “doll” in one of these before.) They were made out of the same materials that Barbie dolls are made of, with pose-able arms & legs.

    I was very suspicious of them, having a creepy feeling about them. I went up to one, & looked at its eyes, which were directed slightly away from me. Then the eyes turned to look into mine.

    I’m getting goosebumps just writing this! Glad I don’t have these nightmares frequently.

    The main element I referred to is dolls that are secretly alive.

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  81. Karen, so many children’s books are actually built around the theme of living toys, and so, of course, are some movies, so your dream might not be uncommon!

    Kim, I’m so glad it went well!

    Donna, I had seen this particular news story all day, but I was doing other things and the headlines were all I really “needed to know.” Eventually I did click on a story to read it, and then the only “news” in the story was the headline I’d already seen; the story was human interest and not news. If you want to do a soft news story, the headline should reflect that! If I hadn’t happened to be home in front of my computer all day, I would not in fact have heard about that story–I don’t watch TV news, nor do I generally have conversations with other people about the news (unless it’s my husband asking if I saw something). To assume “that’s old news, let’s move on to other angles” before the story is eight hours old is a false assumption. Again, I have no problem with covering those other aspects–just do them in other stories, not the main headline story. Retitle the story and show it as a sidebar.

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  82. I also think story “placement,” headlines, etc. have become much more random with online sites (including ours) as they’re always in flux.

    It’s not as logically laid out as maybe it once was for straight newspapers — we have page designers who still do a lot of that work (although my morning the news may be entirely different and the paper looks very out-of-date compared to what most — though maybe not all, as you point out — consumers are reading online).

    It’s all kind of a moving target now, both for news producers & for readers. Stories rotate in and out of prominence on websites.

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  83. I had a dream as a kid — which I still remember, it really was a nightmare — that I was being chased through some kind of working production plant by Mickey and Minnie Mouse. Horrifying.

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  84. Cheryl – Interestingly, I’ve enjoyed the Toy Story movies.

    You know that Elf On a Shelf tradition some families have at Christmastime, where the parents move the elf to a different location in the house each night while the children are sleeping? That whole idea is so creepy to me!

    Speaking of dreams (let’s forget about nightmares for now), I am very tired after a couple pretty long days of babysitting, so I am off to bed very soon. Sweet dreams, Fellow Wanderers!

    (R only had F for an hour & a half today. That was it for the whole week.

    Poor Forrest. He refers to Saturday as his “Daddy Day”, because R has actually been consistent for a few weeks to take him for at least a little while on Saturdays. He thought he was going to get two “Daddy Days”, Sat. & Sun., but only got an hour & half today, & nothing yesterday.

    That’s probably better for him anyway, but it’s still sad to see him being blown off like that.)

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  85. Love Toy Story (and all the sequels) –

    It’s also not unheard of, cheryl, for *old* headlines to remain on updated versions of stories. The whole online thing is very fast and catch-as-catch-can.

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